We arrived in Airlie beach after our 12 hour bus journey around 10:30am, absolutely shattered we thought we would check ourselves in for our Catamaran trip the next day, only to be told once we got to the travel shop that we had to be ready in four hours.......we hadn't showered yet, bought our booze, changed clothes or anything, VERY underprepared. So showering was first on our agenda, we had to shower in an outside beach shower next to the lagoon in front of on-lookers, proper backpackers, then we rushed to grab our booze, 4 litres of Goon, 24 Beers and 12 ciders between us for the 3 day trip. When we got to the port we met two people that we had previous met in Rainbow beach, one girl and guy from up North, our
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